Activists inside Google are calling on management to ditch deals with oil and gas companies, the latest flare-up inside the technology giant. Bloomberg reports: In a letter published on Monday, more than 1,100 workers asked Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat to release a “company-wide climate plan” that commits to cutting carbon emissions entirely. The letter also asks Google to drop…
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Today’s Politics May Be Bad for Your Health
An anonymous reader shares a report: An Iowa man is so bothered by the political climate that his psychologist says he asked for a higher dosage of his anxiety medication. A Chicago woman is so uneasy about politics that she has needed two dental implants to deal with her teeth-grinding habit. And a New York woman says she suffered her first…
A dormant volcano: the black hole at the heart of our galaxy is more explosive than we thought
The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy spat out an enormous flare of radiation 3.5 million years ago that would have been clearly visible from Earth. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-dormant-volcano-black-hole-heart.html…
Early Earthlings May Have Watched the Galaxy’s Center Explode 3.5 Million Years Ago
The mysterious Fermi bubbles at the center of the Milky Way may have been caused by a gargantuan nuclear explosion 3.5 million years ago, new research suggests. Source: https://www.livescience.com/seyfert-flare-blew-fermi-bubbles.html
The center of our galaxy exploded ‘recently’
Scientists have discovered that a high-energy flare ripped through the galaxy in the relatively recent past. The cataclysmic event was thought to have… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331102/the-center-of-our-galaxy-exploded-recently…